Ali Velshi, chief business correspondent for CNN, paced outside of UW-Madison's Grainger Hall Thursday afternoon, a camera tracking his every move.

He faced a group of alert UW-Madison students who were seated before him: "Anybody really worried this [the economy] is going to affect their ability to get a job when they graduate?"

Velshi and crew rolled into town Wednesday night on the CNN Express bus in order to talk to students about their views on the economy, health care, and other issues in the news.

That mean that Grainger Hall - UW-Madison's School of Business - was bustling with TV cameras, a crew, campus PR types, interested spectators, and, of course, students, as the school got some unexpected national attention.

Velshi and crew decided to stop at the campus with little warning - just a few hours, in fact. Previously, they'd been in Evansville, Ind., and the South Side of Chicago, also talking to people about the state of the world.

He said they wanted to talk to college students about how the economy will affect their ability to get jobs and their decisions about what to study.

"That's why this is going to be interesting," he said, looking casual in a black collar shirt and blue jeans. "We just have not done this setting."

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